Definitions for mound-builder

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mound-builder mound builder

Mound-Builder is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 889 anagrams from letters in mound-builder (-bddeilmnoruu).

Definitions for mound-builder

noun

1. megapode.
2. a member of one of the various American Indian tribes who, in prehistoric and early historic times, erected the burial mounds and other earthworks of the Mississippi drainage basin and southeastern U.S.

Origin of mound-builder

First recorded in 1835-45

Examples for mound-builder

The form of the object, the character of the design and the evident age of the specimen, all bespeak the mound-builder.

The specimen shown in fig. 302 is quoted as a “typical example of the cross of the mound-builder.”

The gorget shown in Fig. 3 contains a typical example of the cross of the mound-builder.

Every skeleton of a mound-builder is found in a condition of extreme decay.

"That was a true name for many of us," said the mound-builder.

"Lots of those fellows about in my day," said the mound-builder.